Name: How to Make Marshmallows Recipe | Hilah Cooking
Uploaded: 2025-07-29T18:13:43.000Z
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I'm Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking we're making homemade marshmallows.

I'm going to show you how to do a pumpkin spice marshmallow twist.

You can do classic or fancy for Halloween.

I think marshmallows are a great Halloween snack to make because they are gelatin-based, and everyone knows gelatin is made out of the bones and hooves of sweet little ponies, so it's like witch food.

Start out, we're going to put some cold water into a mixing bowl, and very, very slowly and gently sprinkle your unsweetened, unflavored gelatin over the top, and once you've got If you need to add another tablespoon or two of water, if it gets a little bit dry on top, you can go ahead and do that, and then just set that aside.

And then over here in a pot, we're going to make our syrup.

We've got water, we're going to add some corn syrup, and sort of get this dissolved a little bit.

Try not to slosh it up on the sides at all.

And here, corn syrup is an invert sugar, so it's going to prevent any crystallization from forming, so you don't end up with like chunky, gritty marshmallows.

Then add your regular granulated sugar, and notice how it looks like all the glaciers are melting, and that's like a sad island full of people that are slowly drying because of driving too many cars and stuff, cows farting.

So think about that, because that's Halloween-y, right?

Then we're just going to add a pinch of salt, and get that mixed up together.

The sugar's not going to be fully dissolved.

Again, just try not to slosh it up and make a big mess.

Once it starts boiling, you can increase the heat, and we're going to cook this syrup to between 243 to 245 degrees, somewhere in there.

Once your syrup has reached temperature, this will probably take about 10 minutes or so, start slowly pouring it into the gelatin as you're beating it with a whisk.

I do not recommend trying to do this recipe if you don't have a stand mixer.

Try not to pour it directly onto the whisk, and you can see it'll start dissolving the gelatin almost immediately.

Once all your syrup's in there, don't scrape the pan.

Once you've got all that in there, you want to increase the speed to medium, and let it go for about eight minutes.

By then, it'll be really soft still, but much fluffier and airier.

At this point, you can add any flavorings or colorings you want to add.

I'm going to use vanilla extract and some food coloring to make them orange.

But if you wanted classic marshmallows, just do the vanilla extract and leave out any kind of coloring.

Then you want to beat it for another minute or two until it looks like this.

It's still runny enough to pour, and it's almost cool.

And then here I've got a pan that I've prepared already with a little bit of spray oil, and then I've just dusted it with some cornstarch, powdered sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.

Again, for classic marshmallows, just leave out the pie spice.

Then spread your marshmallow mixture out into your pan.

Sprinkle some more of your powdered sugar mixture on top.

Then let this cool completely, and then cover it with some foil and let it sit four hours or overnight, or even up to a couple of days.

Okay, so once a couple days goes by, your marshmallows have been sitting here.

You don't really have any recollection of the last 48 hours because maybe there was a witch spell or something involved.

Either way, this is what we're looking at.

You should just be able to sort of get a little corner and peel it out of there.

Whoa, who wants a marshmallow on their hot chocolate?

So yeah, you could totally just cut these into squares and make a little hot chocolate thing, or you could get a pumpkin cookie cutter like I have because I thought ahead, and cut out some little shapes.

Got super cute pumpkin spice marshmallow.

And I've got some here that I made before that I just did regular vanilla and cut them into ghosts.

You could probably do like cocoa on the outside and do some bats or some cats or something like that.

So if you make these, please take a picture, send it to me on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook.

I hope everyone has a great and happy and safe Halloween.

See if I can get all these in my mouth without messing up my lipstick.

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